Quote Originally Posted by Pennsterdam
Yes there are militants killing their own people...and it is very sad. But for US troops to kill innocent civilians...thats even worse. It defeats the whole purpose of the US being there which was supposedly to bring "freedom and democracy" to Iraq, but I don't see that happening in the near future...
There are some of those too but, clearly, most of the civilian casualties are from the terrorists, mostly from outside of Iraq. Iraqi's want us there. The new government wants us to stay until we finish training them. We're their guests. They braved multiple elections, some in very dangerous areas, to elect their own leaders. They proved that they can handle Democracy, I think they'll take to freedom just fine. How little must you think of such a rich culture to assume they can't handle freedom or democracy?